Break out the instruments, put on your dancing shoes, and prepare for a rollicking good time. In Castles in the Air you'll meet the people behind the songs from B.C's gold rush era. Here you'll find Mosquito trying to persuade Mary to come home, the Lillooet Indians heading for the goldfields, Joanna Maguire carrying a mystery o her grave, and Alice Douglas scandalizing polite society by eloping with her father's secretary Learn the identity of the whistler who gave Septimus Winner the idea for Listen to a Mockingbird , the German dancing girls in gold rush saloons, and the mulatto servant who inspired Stephen Foster to pen Hard Times Come Again No More .

History buffs and those who love a good story will also want Overlanders: The epic cross-Canada treks for gold, 1958-1862

Richard Wright was born in Vancouver in 1940 and is one of BC's foremost outdoors writers. He left the Vancouver Fire Department in 1970 to produce and direct CBC films, work for BC's Department of Recreation and Conservation, pursue freelance writing and photography, and begin a river rafting company. He has co-authored many guidebooks with Rochelle Wright and three histories. Richard has taken two treks with camels in the Cariboo, reconstructing the Cariboo Camel myth for a segment on National Geographic Today. He lives on Pioneer Ranch near Williams Lake, BC.

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